Catch.



PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907.

Hop-8146.179.

" H. R;- BAKER.

CATCH.

APPLIOATION 1 1mm JUNE 30,1906.

WITNESSES. INVEN'TUR.

AT"!- D RN EY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY R. BAKER, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO R. F. SIMMONS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

CATCH.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed June 30, 1906. Serial No. 324,147.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it-known that I, HENRY R. BAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Catches, of'

of an ordinary chatelaine-pin equipped with my novel catch Figs. 3 and 4, side and plan views of the catch Figs. 5 and 6, sections of the same on line :1: 0c of Fig. 4;, showing the catch in closed-and open positions, respec tively; Fig. 7, a side view of the hook member, and Fig. 8 a similar view of the spring.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

In the drawings, A represents the body, B the joint, and C the pin-tongue, of a pin or brooch which may be of any convenient construction. Fixed to the body A by solder or in any convenient manner is the catchcasing D, which in detail comprises parallel ears or lugs d and the post d. The latter has its extremity inwardly beveled, as at d The lower portion of the post is hollow; but its walls are bent or compressed inward near its beveled portion, forming an inclined shoulder or bearing at (i A recess d is formed in the easing intermediate the post and the ears.

Pivoted upon a pintle or pin E is a member F, whose outer end is provided with an inwardly and downwardly curved beak f, whose extremity normally contacts with the post d at the base of its inclined beveled portion d Upon the outer margin of the pivoted member is a projection f, adapted to accomm'o date the finger of the operator, and adjacent the same a lug f which acts, in conjunction with the margin of the casing, as a stop to the rearward travel of the pivoted member. The inner margin of the member F-is cut away at f 3 to form a seat for a compressionspring G, one of whose ends bears against the pivoted member and the other end against the shoulder or retracted walls d of the post.

The operation of my catch is as follows: The disengaged pin-tongue C is advanced toward the catch and is guided by the beveled portion (Z of the post and by the curved outer portion of the beak f to their point of contact with each other. A slight inward pressure of the pin-tongue at this instant moves the pivoted member upon its axis against the tension of the spring G, and the tongue is there by admitted into the slot (1 and retained therein by the curved under surface of the beak. The pin is released from its described engagement by manually pressing the projectionf rearwardly.

What I claim is v 1. In a jewelry-catch, the combination with a hollow casing provided with parallel ears, and a guiding-post provided with an inwardly-beveled extremity inwardly compressed, of a pivoted member mounted within said casing and. pivoted between said ears, said pivoted member having a beak adapted to register with said post at the base of its beveled portion, and a seat upon the other side of its pivot, and an endwise-compressible spring inclosed and concealed within said hollow casing and acting on. the seat of said pivoted member.

2. In a jewelry-catch, the combination with a casing provided with ears, and a hollow guiding-post having an imvardly-beveled extremity and bent inward forming an inclined shoulder, of a pivoted member mounted in the ears, an inwardly and downwardly directed beak ,upon the pivoted member adapted to normally contact with the post at the base of its beveled portion, and a spring in the casing pressing against the pivoted member.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' HENRY R. BAKER.

Witnesses:

HORATIO E. BELLOWS, HAROLD E. BALL. 

